Taracidae is a family of harvestmen in the order Opiliones. There are 4 genera and 23 described species in Taracidae.
Taxonomy
The Family Taracidae contains the following 23 species (as of 2023), per World Catalog of Opiliones From recent overview, and further studies, the scheme below is achieved, excluding two additional dubious species named by Roewer (1951) where the identity of his described material is unclear. The genera Crosbycus and Hesperonemastoma are not considered to belong to the family by some, although as a new family has not yet been erected for those genera they are included here.
Crosbycus Roewer, 1914 Crosbycus dasycnemus (Crosby, 1911) (but also see the dubious Crosbycus goodnighti Roewer, 1951 and Crosbycus speluncarum Roewer, 1951) Hesperonemastoma Gruber, 1970 Hesperonemastoma kepharti (Crosby & Bishop, 1924) Hesperonemastoma modestum (Banks, 1894) Hesperonemastoma packardi (Roewer, 1914) Hesperonemastoma pallidimaculosum (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945) Hesperonemastoma smilax Shear, 2010 Oskoron Shear, 2016 Oskoron brevichelis Shear, 2016 Oskoron crawfordi Shear, 2016 Oskoron spinosus (Banks, 1894) Taracus Simon, 1879 (14 species, including): Taracus gertschi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 Taracus marchingtoni Shear, 2016 Taracus packardi Simon, 1879 Taracus pallipes Banks, 1894
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